Archive for April, 2010

Interview on Photo360 Competition on 93.8FM

by Willy Foo on Apr.30, 2010, under photography

I was judging for the Microsoft’s Photo360 competition which had teams of photographers go around Singapore capturing a PhotoSynth of a place.

Click to hear the 2 parts of the radio interview

Microsoft Photo360 Competition part 1/2

Microsoft Photo360 Competition part 2/2

John Fernandes & Myself before we started the interview

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How fast are USB 3.0 Hard Disks?

by Willy Foo on Apr.28, 2010, under technology

I was browsing South Asia Computer at Funan Centre one day and saw an ExpressCard for USB 3.0 and wondered if USB 3.0 devices were available already.
It turned out that  Buffalo had a USB 3.0 DriveStation that was paired with the expresscard adapter since USB 3.0 notebooks aren’t available yet.

Bought them back and did a transfer.. (continue reading…)

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Google Earth view now available within Google Maps

by Willy Foo on Apr.27, 2010, under technology

Check this out.. now I don’t need to install the standalone Google Earth. It’s available as a plug in instead.

New York in 3D

Take a look at the Niagara Falls.. (you may have to install the plug-in first to view)


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How about Singapore?
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Creating the Facebook ‘Like’ button on your website/blog

by Willy Foo on Apr.23, 2010, under marketing, technology, wordpress

It’s much simpler than I expected! I originally wanted to leave it till i’m back home but did it in less than 5 mins..

All you need to do is to fill in the boxes to generate the code at
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

My code looks like

<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwillyfoo.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true
&amp;width=280&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true” style=”border:none;
overflow:hidden; width:280px; height:px”></iframe>

If you’re using WordPress, just go to Widgets and create a text widget and paste it in! Simple as that!

Update (27th Apr) : If you want to add the ‘Like’ or ‘Recommend’ button to individual blog posts, just add a plug-in.
There are a few available, I’m using http://blog.gunnjerkens.com/2010/04/facebook-like-plugin-for-wordpress/

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